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Cork Institute of Technology, as lead partner in the Cool Route wish safe travels and fair winds to the CIT Sailing Club members, who tomorrow begin their long journey to Los Angeles! This Thursday, led by 29er dinghy ace and CIT Sports Scholarship recipient Harry Durcan of Crosshaven on the helm and captain and Club […]

Cool Route Project Partners will attend a project meeting which will take place this week in the Port of Cork offices, hosted by project lead partner Cork Institute of Technology. The Cool Route Cruising Ground, described in the International Yachting Press as the World’s Most Adventurous Cruising Ground, is one of the most attractive coastlines […]

The 22nd of March marked the beginning of the summer in Tórshavn. While still early in terms of calendar days, the Port of Tórshavn (a partner in the Cool Route Project) positioned the foreign guest pontoons in its prime location, thus signalling the start of the season 2018. ‘The past couple of years we have […]

The Cool Route project have just completed a video high-lightening the Cool Route as new and unique, a route that is challenging but very diverse and rewarding, a route that is different from traditional sailing routes and covers northern regions that have cooler weather conditions but also some of the world’s most breath-taking scenery. So […]

Following a very productive meeting of the Cool Route partners, held in Glasgow last week , which was hosted by Glasgow Caledonian University, the project is very pleased to announce the inclusion of the West of Ireland Counties of Galway, Mayo and Clare, into the Cool Route Marketing Programme. Discussions led by Port of Galway, […]

A Cool Route Project Partners meeting will take place next week in Glasgow Caledonian University, hosted by project partner GCU. The Cool Route Project – Cruising Oceans on Latitudes above 51 Degrees North – investigates all aspects of the potential to establish a yacht cruising route along the western offshore areas of the Northern Periphery Area, […]

The Cool Route Project includes all of the National Sailing Organisations in Ireland and the UK and has strategic partners in the Faroe Islands and in Norway. The project, funded by the Interreg VB Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme, is researching on a transnational collaborative basis, the development and marketing of the overall cruising grounds around […]

It is a remote beacon of the British Isles; a group of islands shrouded in mystery which have fascinated generations situated on the Cool Route. And, for the first time, an organised yacht race will make the windswept St Kilda island group its focus – helping to highlight the UK’s only dual World Heritage Site, recognised […]

We’ve been saying for years that there’s nowhere quite like our Wild Atlantic Way, and this is going to be witnessed up close and personal next June when a fleet of the best powerboat racers from across the world get to race along its entire length. The prize, aside from bragging rights, is the Venture […]

The Northern Periphery and Arctic 2014-2020 forms a cooperation between 9 programme partner countries. The NPA 2014-2020 is part of the European Territorial Cooperation Objective, supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and ERDF equivalent funding from non EU partner countries. Despite geographical differences, the large programme area shares a number of joint challenges […]